50air squats, 40 sit-ups, 30 lunges/leg, 20 air squats, 10 sit-ups, 20 lunges/leg, 30 air squats, 40situps, 50lunges/leg all w/ kb front rack carry (25lb kbs)up and down a flight of stairs btw exercises
Db snatch: a couple of reps w/50lb db
Hand stand walk technique
felt pretty shitty going in but this was fun, the front rack carry was a lot harder than expected, snatches were easy- hit a triple on the right side
I want to take today off, but I’m definitely going to need a day off after tomorrow. Looking forward to the deload
Some thoughts: I’m a huge fan of stronger by science. Turns out they have coaching services. I took a look and the prices aren’t ridiculous. I’m going to have my own income after I graduate. However, even with the reasonable pricing, it’s still going to be between 5-10% of my annual salary, which isn’t insignificant. I really value lifting, but I’m not sure if that money might be better allocated if put into my retirement account
Note: Depending on where I place, I might take up parents’ offer to help with housing costs
All things have cost. Consider the money you spend on coaching and how much TIME that saves you on having to figure this stuff out on your own.
Then, factor in what you could spend that surplus of time doing instead.
If that would result in more value: the coaching is worth it.
It’s the same reason I pay someone else to change my car’s oil, repair my fence, fix my water heater, install my sprinkler system, etc. COULD I do that on my own? Yes. Is it worth the time I’d invest? No.
This is part of the equation but be realistic when calculating time saved. Will you trust the coach and follow the process?
Or will you over-analyze and spend just as much time thinking about programming as you would without a coach?
The other half of the equation is results based. Do you expect better results with coaching and how much is that difference in results worth to you? You won’t know until you try.
For me, I’m looking for nutrition guidance and accountability. I want someone to tell me how many calories to eat and have a plan.
I don’t trust myself enough to do that. When I try to autopilot nutrition, I always end up unintentionally getting fatter
You have those free dieticians yeah? That’s zero cost, minus time, and in this case you actually get that time BACK because you aren’t wasting it on trial and error.
Would you accept if the coaches give you advice and a plan of eating more and involves gaining weight initially?
I agree with @T3hPwnisher that coaching is worth it if it brings more value than the cost in respect to time saved and potential better quality of life by eliminating decision making and the stress that comes with it. BUT that’s only if you trust and follow their advice, I’m slightly worried that if you get similar advice that you’ve received here you would fight back, spend time stressing and worrying etc in that case it would probably be taking value away from you (not including the costs)
Consider it a 1 year cost. Good coaching not only gets you results but also teaches you the tools you need to no longer need a coach
What exactly made it harder?
I mean did the bar feel heavy straight from unrack? You felt weak in a certain part?
I know you changed gyms recently (different bar width can change bar placement and technique), I know your deadlifts have been going good ( just to show this may not be a strength issue), I know you have the foot issue and hip tilt issue (if it’s getting worse or is worse now than before 100% could be a factor). I also know you took time off squatting recently which makes comparing with November unfair.
ALSO just to point out this has been a theme recently. Maybe it’s less you being weak and more of you needing to recover.
For the three months prior to summer break, yes. Not since then.
My current plan is 3 weeks of 5/3/1 with 5x5 fsl as supplemental then 3weeks with “least sets to 50” as supplemental, deload and repeat with marginally higher weights at least for supplemental
